Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Stress Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 490 512
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 +161
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 24 21 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.081% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 35
10th Percentile £400 £370 £403
25th Percentile £434 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +3.00% -9.69%
75th Percentile £638 £698 £625
90th Percentile £700 £770 £770
UK median daily rate £534 £450 £566
% change year-on-year +18.67% -20.53% -12.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Stress Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stress Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in England

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in England

Stress Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stress Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 16 £550 -23.88% 7
North of England -40 8 £517 +29.25% 3
North West -22 7 £500 +25.00% 1
North East - 1 £550 -
Stress Testing
UK

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.50%) Tableau
3 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Ataccama
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Banking
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
1 9 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Risk Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Liquidity Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Market Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Market Risk Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Treasury Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.17%) Murex MxML
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Credit Risk
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (12.50%) Market Risk
3 2 (8.33%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 8 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 7 (29.17%) Data Analysis
4 7 (29.17%) Data Science
4 7 (29.17%) Portfolio Management
4 7 (29.17%) Statistical Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 6 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.67%) Credit Risk Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 3 (12.50%) Data Lineage
8 3 (12.50%) Product Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) R
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Basel III
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) EMIR
2 1 (4.17%) IFRS
2 1 (4.17%) IFRS 9
2 1 (4.17%) MiFID
2 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Pega
2 3 (12.50%) Murex
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Anaplan
4 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) SAP